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Wed, 10/12/2011 - 12:56
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Saudi Arabia Butchering Foreign Nationals
TEHRAN (FNA)- Forty-four Indonesian migrant workers are on a death row in Saudi Arabia and a worker from West Java could possibly be the next to face the death sentence, an NGO said.
"Previous information said there were 28 workers on death row but in fact, there are 44," Wahyu Susilo, a policy analyst at Migrant Care, said during an event commemorating World Anti Death Penalty Day in Jakarta on Monday.
One of the 44 workers could face the death penalty next month.
"I think the next possible one to be executed is Tuti Tursilawati from Majalengka (West Java)," Wahyu said.
Tuti is currently on trial for the murder of her employer. Wahyu said Migrant Care had not received adequate information on the case.
"If the court finds her guilty and she does not receive forgiveness from the victim's family, Tuti would be executed in November," he said.
It is also urgent that her legal defense team find out the reasons behind the murder.
"We must know why she killed the employer, was she abused on a daily basis? It is an important consideration for the court but it is also one thing the Indonesian government has never seemed to focus on when fighting for the worker's acquittal," Wahyu said.
"We hope the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Satgas TKI (Migrant Worker Task Force) will pull their best efforts to sort the case out."
The last worker to be executed by the Saudi government was Ruyati binti Sapubi, 54. She was beheaded on June 18 after she was convicted of killing her Saudi employer, prompting Indonesia to recall its ambassador from Saudi Arabia.
Indonesia also announced a moratorium on sending migrant workers to Saudi Arabia, where hundreds of thousands of Indonesians work as maids and laborers.
Most of the defendants have no defense lawyer, have insufficient fluency of Arabic language to follow proceedings and in many cases are not informed of the progress of legal proceedings against them, said AI's Middle East and North Africa director, Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui.
The organization also pointed out that a majority of those executed recently in Saudi Arabia have been migrant workers from poor and developing countries.
The beheadings bring the number of executions in Saudi Arabia this year to at least 58, more than double than the 2010 figures. Twenty of those executed in 2011 were foreign nationals, the AI press statement said.
There has been no objection or protest heard from the Western countries, including the US and the EU, and the UN officials.
"Previous information said there were 28 workers on death row but in fact, there are 44," Wahyu Susilo, a policy analyst at Migrant Care, said during an event commemorating World Anti Death Penalty Day in Jakarta on Monday.
One of the 44 workers could face the death penalty next month.
"I think the next possible one to be executed is Tuti Tursilawati from Majalengka (West Java)," Wahyu said.
Tuti is currently on trial for the murder of her employer. Wahyu said Migrant Care had not received adequate information on the case.
"If the court finds her guilty and she does not receive forgiveness from the victim's family, Tuti would be executed in November," he said.
It is also urgent that her legal defense team find out the reasons behind the murder.
"We must know why she killed the employer, was she abused on a daily basis? It is an important consideration for the court but it is also one thing the Indonesian government has never seemed to focus on when fighting for the worker's acquittal," Wahyu said.
"We hope the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Satgas TKI (Migrant Worker Task Force) will pull their best efforts to sort the case out."
The last worker to be executed by the Saudi government was Ruyati binti Sapubi, 54. She was beheaded on June 18 after she was convicted of killing her Saudi employer, prompting Indonesia to recall its ambassador from Saudi Arabia.
Indonesia also announced a moratorium on sending migrant workers to Saudi Arabia, where hundreds of thousands of Indonesians work as maids and laborers.
Most of the defendants have no defense lawyer, have insufficient fluency of Arabic language to follow proceedings and in many cases are not informed of the progress of legal proceedings against them, said AI's Middle East and North Africa director, Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui.
The organization also pointed out that a majority of those executed recently in Saudi Arabia have been migrant workers from poor and developing countries.
The beheadings bring the number of executions in Saudi Arabia this year to at least 58, more than double than the 2010 figures. Twenty of those executed in 2011 were foreign nationals, the AI press statement said.
There has been no objection or protest heard from the Western countries, including the US and the EU, and the UN officials.
